WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says, and he predicts that the fighting will end before the Bush administration leaves office.

In a wide-ranging interview Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live," Cheney...said he expected the war would end during President Bush's second term, which ends in 2009.

Well, gosh, that makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. That's only... what, twice (?) as long as it took the US - and England, and Russia, and the rest of the Allied powers - to defeat the Nazis (largely recognized at the time as the most powerful military machine ever assembled) in WWII!

And this coming a mere two years after Bush proclaimed "Mission Accomplished"!

if we did the kind of destruction we did in WWll in Iraq, all of these anti-Bush guys would have our heads. You think its bad now, we are trying to limit casualties. Lets compare the number of civilian casualties, this war has much less. Not too mention the tactics these guys are using. Suicide bombers, strapping bombs to dogs, you can't fight agaisnt these guys without killing innocent people. Only other option would have been to let Saddam rule and kill these people anyway